It is not expected to be anything like the sound heard at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

And from the June 30th 1946 edition of the Amarillo Sunday News-Globe:

'Operations Crossroads'

Complete coverage of the Bikini bomb tests today will be offered by NBC over Station KGNC. Three NBC commentators, W.W. Chaplin, Ralph Howard Peterson and George Thomas Folster, are in the Marshall Islands for the event. Chaplin will participate in a four network pool representative aboard the USS Mount McKinley. Peterson will be stationed on the Mount McKinley during the test.

In addition to the two pool broadcasts, NBC is preparing its own exclusive coverage. The National Hour will originate from the Marshalls at 2 o'clock with the on-the-spot commentary and interviews by the three NBC correspondents. Following the test, views of the scientists and military men who witnessed the explosion will be broadcast.

"Bikini Bomb Takeoff" will be aired for five minutes somewhere between 1:30 and 2 o'clock this afternoon. It is a pool broadcast of hte description of the takeoff bombing plane. Chaplin and Bill Downs from an observation plane are expected to broadcast.

"Operations Crossroads" will be heard from 4 until conclusion, approximately 4:45 o'clock. This is the actual dropping of the atom bomb. Larry Tighe aboard the Applachian will give a picture of what is to come, including view of targets. Bill Downs on observation plane, Don Bell with interviews with Navy officials. Clete Roberts interviewing scientists, Chaplin at the operations base and George Folster on McKinley will keep the listeners posted on events from each angle. At the zero hour the bombardier will talk his way over the target. Listeners will hear the intercom conversation metronome ticking over the target and then the blast.

All programs will stand by to go on as usual if the bomb test is cancelled because of weather or such reason.

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The National Hour Program Log

45-11-18 Wisconsin State Journal
3 p.m.--National Hours (WIBA): new program with Robert St. John and Robert McCormick, narrators. Guests, Clinton P. Anderson, secretary of agriculture; Andrew Cairnes, chief of food section of UNRRA, discussing "Problems of Peace."

45-12-01 Evening Leader
The NBC National "Hour" at 4 p. m. Sunday is to discuss the question of a Unified Command, and has scheduled Adm. William F. Halsey and Rear Adm. Forrest P. Sherman to outline the Navy's position and Lt. Gen. James Doolittle and Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell to speak on the Army's side.
Preliminary to devoting its schedule next Saturday to all-day Victory Bond broadcasting with numerous special programs, NBC plans to point to the occasion throughout the week with pickups from various networks stations.

WASHINGTON. WV- The nation's highest wartime safety award was made today for an undertaking which could have produced history's most disastrous accidentthe atom bomb project.
The National Safety council's award for distinguished service to safety was presented to the Manhattan district in recognition of the corps of engineers achievement in maintaining "outstandingly low" accident rates in facilities throughout the country.
Maj. Gen. Richard Leslie Groves, the army's top man on the project, gave credit to all the universities and industrial organization; which "cooperated so magnificently," in accepting the award on NBC's "National Hour" program.

46-05-12 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--National Hour (WMAQ): report on first six months of peace by MBC reporters; "The Calendar of Peace." George Thomas Folster, from Tokyo; Henry Cassidy, from Paris; Roy Porter, from Germany; W. W. Chaplin, from New York.

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46-05-19 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--National Hour (WMAQ): program dedicated to "I Am an American Day."

46-06-23 Port Arthur NewsAll networks are completing arrangemnents for full coverage of the atom bomb test at Bikini this weekend and on next Sunday when the bomb will be dropped. Twenty-four hours before the scheduled dropping of the bomb NBC will broadcast a round table of the test in a pool broadcast from Adm Blandy's Joint Task Foice No 1 on Satmday at 5 30 p m. On Sunday during the National Hour W W Chaplin, George Folstcr and Ralph Howard Peterson NBC commentators will be on hand to report of the test.

46-09-08 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--National Hour (WMAQ): "Fit to Print," story of 50 years of news reporting by New York Times; speaker, Herbert Matthews, chief of Times London bureau, speaking from London.